Motivational Quotes

Action

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

- Angelou, Maya

Best Quotes about Action

Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.